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Inside Israel’s Battle Over the Haredi Draft and Who Must Fight in Its Wars

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Joshua Leifer
The conflict over compulsory service for the nation’s ultra-Orthodox has become a stand-in for a larger struggle over the country’s right-wing, religious turn — and could determine its future.

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The Haredim have historically been exempt from serving in Israel’s armed forces, which has an otherwise compulsory draft for Jewish Israelis.

Alison Rose, The New Yorker’s Femme Fatale, Dies at 81

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Penelope Green
She started as the magazine’s glamorous receptionist and became one of its more singular writers. In one of her last articles, she memorialized her time (and lovers) there.

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Alison Rose in 2004. Her memoir, “Better Than Sane: Tales From a Dangling Girl,” grew out of a bombshell article about her time at The New Yorker.

U.S. to Repatriate Survivors of Its Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel

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Eric Schmitt， Charlie Savage and Carol Rosenberg
The U.S. military rescued the two men in the Caribbean Sea after Special Operations forces fired on a semi-submersible that was assessed to be smuggling drugs.

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A Navy guided missile destroyer docked near the entrance to the Panama Canal in Panama City last month. The United States has deployed warships, surveillance planes and an attack submarine to the region.

Chen Ning Yang, Nobel-Winning Physicist, Is Dead at 103

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George Johnson
He and a colleague, Tsung-Dao Lee, created a sensation in 1956 by proposing that one of the four forces of nature might violate a law of physics.

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The physicist Chen Ning Yang in 1963. Dr. Yang’s sense of mathematical beauty, his colleague Freeman Dyson said, “turns his least important calculations into miniature works of art.”

Camp Mystic Security Guard Saved Dozens Amid Deadly Flooding

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J. David Goodman
In interviews with The New York Times, the guard, Glenn Juenke, offered the most detailed firsthand account yet of what staff members did as floodwaters rose at the Texas camp in July.

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Glenn Juenke, a night security guard for Camp Mystic in Kerrville, Texas, on Wednesday. Mr. Juenke’s account of his actions during the deadly flooding at Camp Mystic represents the most detailed firsthand description yet of what senior staff members at the camp did as the Guadalupe River surged.

Military Plans to Fire Artillery Over California Freeway on Saturday

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Laurel Rosenhall， John Ismay and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
Rounds were fired on Friday across Interstate 5 as part of a test for Saturday’s event in Southern California. The governor said the state would shut a section of the freeway.

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The Marines plan to fire 155-millimeter artillery shells over a major freeway in Southern California on Saturday as part of a demonstration at Camp Pendleton.

How a U.K. Spy Case Against China Abruptly Fell Apart

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Stephen Castle and Lizzie Dearden
Evidence prepared for a collapsed espionage trial was published by an under-pressure government in Britain, offering a window into Western countries’ struggle to define Beijing as friend or foe.

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The Houses of Parliament in London. Government documents published this week give an insight into how British security officials view the rising threat posed by China.
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